Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Compounded by Bucknell's offensive power and talent, we spelled out with brutal clarity that you can't let the big play kill you," said captain Ed Kinney, describing with grandiloquence one of the few games that can appropriately be described that way. "Those plays destroyed us and they fed on each other--they opened us up over the middle, making us even more more vulnerable...
...pundits and poll watchers trying to explain today's primary upset of 16-year Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar. In one of the biggest electoral turnabouts in the state's history, the 43-year-old Okie from Muskogee became the third House member to lose a primary this year. Voters fed up with the Clinton-like liberal handed 51 percent of the ballot to a 71-year-old retired school principal instead. BTW: How bad is it? Senate bigwig Tom Foley (Democrat, Washington) didn't even have an opponent, yet he pulled only 35 percent of the vote in his primary...
...game-show audiences were riveted to their sets during Charles Van Doren's 14-week reign on NBC's Twenty-One. The bookish champ became an unlikely national hero -- until it was revealed that he had been fed answers to the show's often obscure questions, a scandal dramatized in the new film Quiz Show. Could today's intellectuals handle actual questions asked of Van Doren? Without cheating? Time put these five to the test...
...months in 1956 and 1957 he became a celebrity by remaining champion for weeks on a television quiz program called Twenty-One. In the process he won $129,000 and 500 marriage proposals. But two years later he admitted to a congressional committee that he had been fed the answers by the show's producers. Compared with the participants in today's scandals, Van Doren seems more pathetic than notorious; compared with contemporary affronts to our sensibilities, his misdeeds seem infinitely forgivable...
...many ways, Harvard professors and students work together to spread their liberal propaganda. First-years capable of thinking for themselves are the raw materials that are fed into the Harvard factory. Inside the building, professors and students work like assembly line workers...